Gulielmi Pisonis medici Amstelædamensis De Indiæ utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim, quorum contenta pagina sequens exhibet
This is a 1658 Latin natural history and medical treatise by Willem Piso, a physician of Amsterdam, published by the Elzevier press and covering the plants, animals and remedies of Brazil and the East Indies for a learned European readership. Its fish pictures are small black-and-white woodcut-style engravings shown in side profile on plain paper, with bold outlines, dense hatching on scales and fins, and simple spotted or banded patterns that a designer could use as clean, schematic motifs for pattern or line-based graphics.
